Socrates Quotes About Perfection
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The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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